Estate in Staiky, undervalued Mercedes and million salary: NACP to check declaration of Deputy Head of the HCJ Kvasha

Estate in Staiky, undervalued Mercedes and million salary: NACP to check declaration of Deputy Head of the HCJ Kvasha

The High Council of Justice is a body that daily decides the fate of judges by considering disciplinary proceedings for unethical behavior or corruption scandals, and therefore its members must be a model of integrity. That is why the assets and declarations of the Deputy Head of the HCJ Oksana Kvasha — an estate in Stayky, land plots, cars, and family jewelry — deserve close monitoring, especially during the war, when public trust in the judiciary is one of the pillars of internal security.

This is reported by “Stopcor”.

Does the financial situation of Oksana Kvasha’s family align with official incomes and with her own statements about judges as a “moral authority of society”?

What is known about her lifestyle? And are there so-called “double standards” in the activities of the Deputy Head of the HCJ?

According to the official biography published on the HCJ website, before her election Oksana Kvasha served as academic secretary of the Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kvasha is a Doctor of Law, professor, and Honored Lawyer of Ukraine; she has worked at the institute since 1996.

She was elected to the HCJ from the congress of scholars on November 16, 2023, and on March 4, 2025, Kvasha became Deputy Head of the Council.

However, the circumstances of her election raised questions at the time. The DEJURE Foundation highlighted an abnormally large margin of votes — 72 out of 110 in the second round — and noted: “Such unanimity looks strange when compared with previous congresses. In August 2022, among two candidates it was not possible to choose in the first round; in June 2023, out of two candidates, none were elected.”

DEJURE also drew attention to doubts about the political neutrality of the newly elected member and questions regarding her declarations.

Doctor of Law Mykhailo Zhernakov listed specific problematic points in Kvasha’s declarations:

• in 2022 she did not declare her husband’s land plot in the Boryspil district acquired in 2021 (she explained to the Ethics Council that she was allegedly unaware of it);
• information about her sister, who works in the secretariat of the Criminal Cassation Court of the Supreme Court, was missing (an error in interpreting the law on the judiciary);
• questions also arose regarding an apartment in Ivano-Frankivsk that her husband received by order as an employee of the National Academy of Internal Affairs and sold shortly after leaving the service.

What has changed in Oksana Kvasha’s assets and lifestyle since then?

Kvasha’s 2025 declaration, filed on March 27, 2026, and published on the NACP website, raises new questions.

The real estate section lists a residential house of 294.8 sq. m in the village of Stayky, Obukhiv district, Kyiv region, purchased by the declarant’s husband on November 18, 2025; Kvasha herself actually resides there. Also listed is a 1,171 sq. m land plot in Liubartsy, Boryspil district — the same one that, according to Zhernakov, raised questions back in 2022 and is now openly declared as the husband’s property.

A Mercedes-Benz EQB 250+ 2024 valued at UAH 752,493, purchased in June 2025, is also declared. However, on vehicle marketplaces the price of such a model starts from USD 30,000 (i.e., more than UAH 1.2 million).

Among the family’s 2025 income are Kvasha’s salary at the HCJ of UAH 3,942,940, income from scientific work at the Koretsky Institute and the Precarpathian University, as well as her husband’s salary at the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine (UAH 277,853).

Among the assets are USD 25,000 in cash, over UAH 120,000 in bank accounts, an Omega wristwatch, and a jewelry set from the Kyiv Jewelry Factory, acquired before the first declaration and without stated value.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that Kvasha herself has repeatedly emphasized high moral standards for judges.

Last year, speaking at the XIV Judicial Forum, Oksana stated that a judge (quoting) is a “moral authority for society” and a public figure who must serve as an example not only in professional activity but also in private life, whose indifference “undermines the foundations of Ukraine’s national security.”

Do these standards apply only to judges or also to members of the body that is supposed to oversee them? The question is rhetorical.

The situation around Oksana Kvasha leaves at least two questions open.

First: why was Kvasha’s election in 2023 held in a “closed” manner and with record unanimity, atypical for previous scholars’ congresses, and is this connected with questions about her political neutrality?

Second: does the declarant sufficiently disclose her family’s assets, and has her integrity been properly verified?